BPEL PM and OSB operational management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

By Narayan Bharadwaj

This book is a step-by-step tutorial on how to automate the management of BPEL Process manager, SOA Suite, and Oracle Service Bus. Each chapter has a problem-solution approach, starting with a real-world problem and then providing the solution to the problem using illustrative examples. This book is written for BPEL and OSB administrators who deal with Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle SOA Suite, or Oracle Service Bus in a production environment and who need to automate operational tasks. If you are an SOA architect or associated with SOA governance, this book will serve as an eye opener for the many available features to provide production assurance in complex SOA environments. A general awareness of Service-Oriented Architecture is expected, as well as an awareness of Oracle SOA products such as BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Service Bus. No specific management or operational expertise is required.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Aug 23, 2010
• ISBN: 9781847197757

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Table of Contents

BPEL PM and OSB Operational Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

Who this book is for

What you should find in the book

What you won’t find

What this book covers

I: BPEL Management

II: SOA Suite Management

III: WebLogic and Oracle Service Bus Management

What you need for this book

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Grid Control, BPEL, and OSB Overview

Grid Control

Architecture and deployment

Installing Grid Control

Home page

Oracle BPEL Process Manager overview

Oracle SOA Suite overview

Oracle Service Bus overview

Summary

2. Discovering BPEL PM

Support for managing BPEL PM

BPEL PM target discovery

Navigating to application servers

Discovering a BPEL PM target

Navigating to the BPEL PM target home page

Configuring a BPEL PM target

Summary

3. BPEL Process Monitoring

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Navigating to the BPEL PM target home page

Navigating to the BPEL process home page

Creating a SOAP test to monitor a partner link

Creating a SOAP test to monitor a BPEL process

Testing the SOAP tests

Summary

4. BPEL Infrastructure Management

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Creating the BPEL infrastructure service

Viewing the BPEL infrastructure service

Viewing system alerts and policies

Viewing configuration changes

Viewing key system metrics

Viewing administration tasks

Viewing system components

Viewing the system dashboard

Summary

5. BPEL Service-Level Management

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Viewing the BPEL process availability service

Adding service performance metrics

Setting service-level expectation (availability)

Viewing the service availability definition

Viewing the BPEL infrastructure service

Adding infrastructure performance metrics

Adding infrastructure usage metrics

Setting service-level expectation (infrastructure)

Viewing the infrastructure availability definition

Viewing the BPEL process aggregate service

Viewing the aggregate service availability definition

Adding aggregate service performance and usage metrics

Setting service-level expectation (aggregate service)

Summary

6. BPEL Services Dashboard

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Navigating to the Reports tab

Creating an SOA services dashboard

Viewing the SOA services dashboard

Summary

7. BPEL Deployment Automation

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Viewing the Software Library

Uploading BPEL suitcases to the Software Library

Viewing the BPEL process provisioning deployment procedure

Scheduling BPEL suitcase deployment

Viewing the status of the scheduled deployment

Viewing the deployed processes

Summary

8. BPEL Configuration Management

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Navigating to BPEL target configuration management

Viewing the last collected configuration

Saving a configuration snapshot to the repository

Navigating to Oracle Application Server configuration management

Viewing last collected configuration

Saving a configuration snapshot to the repository

Making changes to the BPEL environment

Making changes to the Oracle Application Server environment

Comparing the current BPEL configuration with a saved baseline

Comparing BPEL process versions for the same process

Comparing the current Oracle Application Server configuration with a saved baseline

Viewing application server target comparison results with a saved baseline

Summary

9. SOA Suite Cloning

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Adding an Oracle Application Server Cluster to Grid Control

Stopping application server processes

Creating a component in the Grid Control Software Library

Cloning Oracle Application Server and SOA applications

Validating a newly created cluster

Summary

10. Web Application Monitoring

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Creating a web application

Recording a web transaction as a Service Test

Adding Beacons to run the Service Test

Adding performance and usage metrics

Viewing web transaction playback

Summary

11. Discovery of WebLogic and OSB targets

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Adding a WebLogic domain target

Navigating to the OSB target home page

Summary

12. OSB Deployment Automation

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercise

Viewing the Software Library

Uploading projects to the Software Library

Viewing the project deployment procedure

Scheduling project deployment

Summary

13. OSB Proxy and Business Service Monitoring

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Creating an OSB Infrastructure Service

Navigating to the OSB proxy service home page

Creating the OSB proxy aggregate service

Creating a SOAP test to monitor an OSB proxy service endpoint

Creating a SOAP test to monitor an OSB business service endpoint

Testing the SOAP tests

Summary

14. WebLogic and OSB Configuration Management

Challenges

Solution

Step-by-step exercises

Viewing a WebLogic managed server configuration

Saving a managed server configuration snapshot

Viewing and saving an OSB configuration

Comparing the current OSB configuration with a saved baseline

Comparing the current managed server configuration with a saved baseline

Summary

Index

BPEL PM and OSB Operational Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

Narayan Bharadwaj

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BPEL PM and OSB Operational Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

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Credits

Author

Narayan Bharadwaj

Reviewers

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Arvind Maheshwari

Matt Wright

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About the Author

Narayan Bharadwaj (aka Nadu) has dabbled in several different areas of the business software market. He has more than a decade of experience working in disparate technologies such as service-oriented architecture, systems management, and everything in between. Other technology areas include cloud computing, database, middleware, and IT management software. While dabbling in these technologies, Narayan wore several hats—from software consultant, database administrator, application developer, to product manager. Prior to these gigs, he went to school at the University of Maryland, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, to pursue various technical degrees. Thinking this was not good enough, he added an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Narayan spent close to a decade at Oracle USA Inc at Redwood Shores, CA, where he was the group product manager for management of middleware and service-oriented architecture products. During his stint at the Application and Systems Management Products division, Narayan led the charge into new markets such as real-user monitoring, Java application diagnostics, middleware management, and service-oriented architecture management. This included key acquisitions such as Moniforce, ClearApp, and AmberPoint. More recently, Narayan has moved to the clouds in San Francisco, leading Salesforce.com's platform strategy and execution with respect to cloud management and cloud data analytics. He lives in San Mateo, CA, with his wife and two-year-old son.

When he is not commuting to work, pursuing degrees, or wearing different hats, Narayan loves to wield a racket on a badminton or tennis court, spike a volley ball, or run the half marathon once in a long while.

I am constantly inspired by the two women in my life—my mother and my wife. Thank you for being there for me.

About the Reviewers

Hans Forbrich is a well-known member of the Oracle Community. He started with Oracle products in 1984 and has kept abreast of nearly all of Oracle's Core Technologies. As ACE Director, Hans has been invited to present at Oracle Open World and various Oracle User Group meetings around the world. His company, Forbrich Computer Consulting Ltd., is well established in western Canada. Hans specializes in delivering Oracle University training through Oracle University and partners such as Exit Certified.

Although his special interests include Oracle Spatial, OracleVM, and Oracle Enterprise Linux, Hans has been particularly excited about the advances in Oracle SOA, Oracle WebLogic, and Oracle Grid Control.

Hans has been a technical reviewer for a number of Packt Publishing books, including "Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases,Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities, and Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2."

I wish to thank my wife Susanne, and the Edmonton Opera, for their patience while I work on these reviews as well as on my own book.

Hector R. Madrid is the author of the "Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities" book. He is currently working as a freelance consultant; he collaborates with Oracle University as a certified instructor for the DBA, Java, and Application Server course tracks. He is a highly respected Oracle professional with 20 years of experience as a full-time DBA. He works with a wide range of DBA requirements starting with the daily DBA duties to the tasks related to mission-critical and high-availability systems. He was the first Oracle Certified Master in Latin America. He obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and he has presented different technical papers at several Oracle conferences.

I want to thank my family for their patience and the time I borrowed from them during the revision of this book.

Arvind Maheshwari, a senior Software Development Manager for the Oracle Enterprise Manager development team, is focused on building management solutions for middleware. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has played the role of developer, consultant, architect, and technical manager in the financial, manufacturing, and telecom industries, developing enterprise solutions that are deployed in high-availability architectures.

Matt Wright is a director at Rubicon Red, an independent consulting firm helping customers enable enterprise agility and operational excellence through the adoption of emerging technologies such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Cloud Computing.

With over 20 years of experience in building enterprise-scale distributed systems, Matt first became involved with SOA shortly after the initial submission of SOAP 1.1 to the W3C in 2000, and has worked with some